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Gnostism
Has anybody heard of it? I'm really interested in learning more about this dead belief.
Gnostism means divine knowledge, where we are sinned for not knowing the truth as opposed to original sin of Adam and Eve.
They believe that the true god created Aeons, they're just divine creatures or something, one of them Sophia created a child without the true god's consent. She created it with herself without a counterpart(opposite sex perhaps) and therefore the creature was deformed. Sophia knew this and casted it to another realm. The child was called the Demiurge, there's many variations to the name. The Demiurge was alone in the world and believed that it was the only being the supreme being. It created the angels and earth and humans. And us as humans mistaken that he is the true god. A god that created us humans which are also flawed to do evil.
In Gnostics, Jesus apparently reveals this knowlege to us. There is a fifth gospel known as the Nag Hammadi Libary. An incomplete copy of it was excavated in the 70's.
Because the belief greatly opposed all other religions by saying that the God people are worshipping now is a deformed evil god. Gnostism was hightly unpopular and i guess anyone that even mentioned about was killed.
The movie the Matrix has Gnostics overtones...
It would be a fun discussion, anyone else in here know about Gnostics?
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